Optical Cable (OCC) Operating Margin (2010 - 2026)

Optical Cable's (OCC) quarterly Operating Margin came in at 5.87% in Q2 2026, up 832.0% YoY from 0.63% in Q2 2025, and up 563.02% on a QoQ basis from 1.27% in Q1 2026.

Optical Cable (OCC) Operating Margin (2010 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Optical Cable's Operating Margin history runs 17 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 5.87% for Q2 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin rose 832.0% year-over-year to 5.87% in Q2 2026; TTM through Apr 2026 was 2.46%, a 529.0% increase from a year earlier, with the FY2025 full-year figure at 0.62%, up 445.0% from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin was 5.87% for Q2 2026 at Optical Cable, up from 1.27% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Operating Margin for OCC reached as high as 7.05% in Q4 2022 and fell as low as 9.42% in Q1 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 0.89% and a median of 0.54% in 2022 frame the typical range for Operating Margin.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Operating Margin soared 1164 bps; it then sank 1514 bps in 2024.
  • Tracing OCC's Operating Margin over 5 years: stood at 7.05% in 2022, then sank by 206 bps to 7.45% in 2023, then jumped by 146 bps to 3.4% in 2024, then tumbled by 60 bps to 1.36% in 2025, then jumped by 333 bps to 5.87% in 2026.
  • According to Business Quant data, Operating Margin over the past three periods registered 5.87%, 1.27%, and 1.36% for Q2 2026, Q1 2026, and Q4 2025 respectively.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Operating Margin (Qtr)
1 Cisco Systems 469.93 Bn 453.29 Bn 10.08 Bn 25.00%
2 Motorola Solutions 65.69 Bn 64.83 Bn 1.36 Bn 19.34%
3 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 63.18 Bn 58.34 Bn 8.25 Bn 5.05%
4 Ciena 60.70 Bn 59.40 Bn 625.52 Mn 13.27%
5 Lumentum Holdings 60.35 Bn 57.18 Bn 357.00 Mn 21.59%
6 Ubiquiti 35.71 Bn 35.34 Bn 370.71 Mn 36.90%
7 AST SpaceMobile 23.10 Bn 23.68 Bn -69.36 Mn -1,584.72%
8 Applied Optoelectronics 12.30 Bn 11.86 Bn 43.92 Mn -8.60%
9 Zebra Technologies 11.58 Bn 11.47 Bn 742.00 Mn 14.38%
10 Optical Cable 198.24 Mn 198.09 Mn 7.59 Mn 5.87%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Apr 30, 2026 5.87%
Jan 31, 2026 -1.27%
Oct 31, 2025 1.36%
Jul 31, 2025 2.82%
Apr 30, 2025 -2.45%
Jan 31, 2025 -5.41%
Oct 31, 2024 3.40%
Jul 31, 2024 -8.25%
Apr 30, 2024 -8.08%
Jan 31, 2024 -9.42%
Oct 31, 2023 -7.45%
Jul 31, 2023 0.82%
Apr 30, 2023 5.61%
Jan 31, 2023 5.72%
Oct 31, 2022 7.05%
Jul 31, 2022 -0.96%
Apr 30, 2022 -0.12%
Jan 31, 2022 -5.22%
Oct 31, 2021 1.41%
Jul 31, 2021 -2.92%